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gremlin
noun- a mysterious spirit that haunts aircraft, deluding pilots; hence, any mechanical fault UK, 1929
Originally Royal Air Force slang. - Just last week a new batch of complaints had flooded in concerning a potentially life-threatening in-flight malfunction of the variable-sweep swing wing. Gold couldn’t account for the gremlins. — T. E. Cruise, Wings of Gold III: The Hot Pilots, p. 324, 1989
- The bald guy’s pilot must have figured that something very bad had happened, because he jumped back in his Cessna and took off, mechanical gremlins and all[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 37, 1992
- an inexperienced surfer who does not respect surfer etiquette US, 1961
- One who, due to objectionable actions both in and out of the water, causes public surfing bans and the closing of private beaches to all surfers. — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 117, 1963
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